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Snapdragon 8 Elite 2: Early leak hints at over 20% CPU performance upgrade for Galaxy S26-series bound chipset

While Qualcomm's next-gen flagship mobile chipset is still eleven months away, a new leak has now revealed some information on it. Expected to be branded as the Snapdragon 8 Elite…

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Japan readies ambitious $65 billion plan to revive homegrown semiconductor manufacturing — Expects economic return of over $1 trillion

Japan readies ambitious $65 billion plan to revive homegrown semiconductor manufacturing — Expects economic return of over $1 trillion

The Japanese government is prepping to ink a bill that grants $65 billion in subsidies to revive local chip manufacturing. Source

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AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPU has totally sold out – and a new worry is that fresh stock may not arrive until late December

AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPU has totally sold out – and a new worry is that fresh stock may not arrive until late December

Ryzen 9800X3D has sold out everywhere, including a big German retailerThat retailer, MindFactory, had a fair bit of initial stock, but it’s all goneThe restock estimate from MindFactory is the…

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Intel Arrow Lake Xe-LPG+ “Arc 130T” iGPU Is Faster Than Lunar Lake Xe2 “Arc 140V” iGPU In OpenCL Benchmark Test

Intel Arrow Lake Xe-LPG+ “Arc 130T” iGPU Is Faster Than Lunar Lake Xe2 “Arc 140V” iGPU In OpenCL Benchmark Test

Intel's Arrow Lake iGPU, the Xe-LPG+ based Arc 130T, has been tested in Geekbench's OpenCL test & ended up faster than the Xe2-based Arc 140V. Intel Xe-LPG+ vs Xe2 Benchmark…

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NVIDIA’s Product Lines Now Fully Devoted Towards Next-Gen RTX 50 “Blackwell” GPUs As RTX 40 “Ada” Takes Backseat

NVIDIA’s Product Lines Now Fully Devoted Towards Next-Gen RTX 50 “Blackwell” GPUs As RTX 40 “Ada” Takes Backseat

NVIDIA has shifted its production lines to the next-gen GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs while the RTX 40 "Ada" series is now at the end of its life. NVIDIA GeForce…

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Intel To Reportedly Outsource More “Arrow Lake” Orders To TSMC; Team Blue No Longer Confident In Its Foundry Business

Intel To Reportedly Outsource More “Arrow Lake” Orders To TSMC; Team Blue No Longer Confident In Its Foundry Business

Intel is reportedly planning to outsource more of its Arrow Lake CPU orders to TSMC, as Team Blue is no longer confident in the capabilities of its foundry division. Intel…

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After TSMC, Now Samsung Is Prohibited By The U.S. From Supplying China-Based Firms With Chip Shipments Of 7nm And Below, Narrowing The Options To A Mininum

After TSMC, Now Samsung Is Prohibited By The U.S. From Supplying China-Based Firms With Chip Shipments Of 7nm And Below, Narrowing The Options To A Mininum

The appointment of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States meant that China would have to buckle up for a wave of trade sanctions. Just recently, it…

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